To include something else in your flash chats and presentations you need to convert these files to supported formats. Most can be converted to swf.

See these tools below:

authorPOINT Lite Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter for PPS, PPT to SWF

iSpring Free PowerPoint, YouTube to SWF

Google Docs Viewer for PowerPoint, PDF, Tiff

SWFtools : PDF2SWF, SWFcombine, WAV2SWF, AVI2SWF

PDFcreator : Convert any windows printable document (i.e. DOC)  to PDF

• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• August 28, 2009 -- Use JW Player to play VideoWhisper application streams
• August 26, 2009 -- Online Video Consultation Solution by VideoWhisper
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• March 19, 2009 -- Live Streaming on WordPress by VideoWhisper
• January 5, 2010 -- Install ffmpeg mplayer flvtool2 yamdi x264 theora mp3lame vorbis ogg faac
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder
• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• September 11, 2009 -- Live Streaming v2 by VideoWhisper
• July 28, 2009 -- VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat Script

• July 28, 2009 -- VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat Script
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder
• August 26, 2009 -- Online Video Consultation Solution by VideoWhisper
• May 16, 2009 -- Red5 Hosting for Video Chat Scripts
• September 11, 2009 -- Live Streaming v2 by VideoWhisper
• August 28, 2009 -- Use JW Player to play VideoWhisper application streams
• January 6, 2009 -- Video Conference Plugin for WordPress by VideoWhisper
• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server

Use uname -a to see if you need to download 32 or 64 bits versions.

Get SUSE release: cat /etc/SuSE-release

INSTALL JDK

Install latest JDK from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp .

Use chmod a+x to make downloaded file executable and execute it.

Make sure latest version is used:

ln -s /usr/java/latest /usr/local/jdk
ln -s /usr/java/latest/jre /usr/local/jre
rm /usr/bin/java
ln -s /usr/java/latest/bin/java /usr/bin/java
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest/

INSTALL SVN

Get SVN from: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=subversion

Install RPMs with:  rpm -iv package.rpm

Install any dependencies as required. Search from http://software.opensuse.org/search .

INSTALL ANT

wget http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.0-bin.tar.gz
tar zxvf apache-ant-1.8.0-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-ant-1.8.0 /usr/local/ant

Configure
export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
ln -s /usr/local/ant/bin/ant /usr/local/bin/ant

Replace old ant
rm /usr/bin/ant
ln -s /usr/local/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant

Check ant version:
ant –version

INSTALL Red5

Get latest Red5 :
svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/trunk red5

Build Red5 :
cd red5
ant prepare
ant dist

Move Red5:
cd ..
mv red5 /opt/red5

OPERATE RED5

Start Red5 (when need or on server reboot):
cd /opt/red5/dist
./red5.sh > start.log &

Install/update applications in the /opt/red5/dist/webapps folder .  For changes to take effect, Red5 must be restarted:

1. Check if red5 is running:
ps aux | grep red5

2. Go to its folder and shut red5 down:
cd /opt/red5/dist
./red5-shutdown.sh

3. See if it’s still running or not:
ps aux | grep red5

4. Restart it, and also make it output the logs into a file of your choice:
./red5.sh > start.log &

5. Make sure it’s back online:
ps aux | grep red5

• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• April 29, 2009 -- Installed Red5 0.8 RC3 with JDK 1.6.13 on Linux
• March 1, 2010 -- Red5 Linux Server Optimizations and Tools
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• January 5, 2010 -- Install ffmpeg mplayer flvtool2 yamdi x264 theora mp3lame vorbis ogg faac
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• February 10, 2010 -- Install GeoIP PHP Extension
• July 28, 2009 -- VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat Script
• May 16, 2009 -- Red5 Hosting for Video Chat Scripts
• March 4, 2009 -- Red5 Support for VideoWhisper Projects

export JAVA_OPTS=”-Xrs -Xms128M -Xmx256M -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=300000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=360000 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Xverify:none”

Assuming red5 was installed in /opt/red5/dist admin will often need to restart it or check if it’s running.

Make sure Red5 restarts: restart.sh

#!/bin/bash
#Restart the process
#First see if running
PID=`ps -eo ‘tty pid args’ | grep ‘red5′ | grep -v grep | grep -v restart | tr -s ‘ ‘ | cut -f2 -d ‘ ‘`
cd /opt/red5/dist
if [ -z "$PID" ]
then
#not running
echo “Red5 was not running at `date`” >> /opt/red5/dist/run-restart.log
else
echo “Red5: $PID”
#shutdown
/opt/red5/dist/red5-shutdown.sh
sleep 6
#make sure
kill $PID >> null
sleep 2
fi
#start
/opt/red5/dist/red5.sh >> /opt/red5/dist/red5.log &
echo “On request restarted Red5 at `date`” >> /opt/red5/dist/run-restart.log

Mare sure Red5 process is running, if not start it: running.sh

#!/bin/bash
#set environment
PID=`ps -eo ‘tty pid args’ | grep ‘red5′ | grep -v grep | grep -v running | tr -s ‘ ‘ | cut -f2 -d ‘ ‘`
if [ -z "$PID" ]
then
#Restart the process
cd /opt/red5/dist
/opt/red5/dist/red5.sh >> /opt/red5/dist/red5.log &
echo “Restarted Red5 at `date`” >> /opt/red5/dist/run-restart.log
else
#do nothing
echo “Red5 is already running with PID=$PID at `date`” >> /opt/red5/dist/run-checked.log
fi

Red5 Services
Red5 Hosting
Red5 installation on VPS & Dedicated Servers (Linux / Windows)

• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• April 29, 2009 -- Installed Red5 0.8 RC3 with JDK 1.6.13 on Linux
• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux
• January 5, 2010 -- Install ffmpeg mplayer flvtool2 yamdi x264 theora mp3lame vorbis ogg faac
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• February 10, 2010 -- Install GeoIP PHP Extension
• May 16, 2009 -- Red5 Hosting for Video Chat Scripts
• March 4, 2009 -- Red5 Support for VideoWhisper Projects
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder

wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP.tar.gz
tar zxvf GeoIP.tar.gz
cd GeoIP-1.4.6
./configure
make
make check
make install

Install PHP PECL extension

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/geoip
tar zxvf geoip
cd geoip-1.0.7
phpize
./configure
make
make check
make install

Find php.ini

php –ini

Enable extension to load in php.ini:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Dynamic Extensions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
extension=geoip.so

You may need to restart HTTP server (apache) to apply changes.

Download Geo Lite City database

wget -N -q http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
mv GeoLiteCity.dat /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat

For more accurate detection and production projects, buy the full GeoCity database from MaxMind.

• April 29, 2009 -- Installed Red5 0.8 RC3 with JDK 1.6.13 on Linux
• January 5, 2010 -- Install ffmpeg mplayer flvtool2 yamdi x264 theora mp3lame vorbis ogg faac
• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• March 1, 2010 -- Red5 Linux Server Optimizations and Tools
• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder
• September 11, 2009 -- Live Streaming v2 by VideoWhisper
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• August 26, 2009 -- Online Video Consultation Solution by VideoWhisper

This final release includes important improvements and bug fixes.
http://code.google.com/p/red5/updates/list

Red5 Tutorials
Red5 Centos Linux Installation
Red5 Unbuntu Linux Installation
Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server

Red5 Services
Red5 Hosting
Red5 installation on VPS & Dedicated Servers (Linux / Windows)

Red5 Video Streaming Software
(free to download)
Video Consultation

2 Way Video Chat

Video Conference

Live Streaming

Video Recorder

• April 29, 2009 -- Installed Red5 0.8 RC3 with JDK 1.6.13 on Linux
• January 11, 2009 -- Pay Per View Video Chat Software Update for VideoGirls.BiZ
• March 4, 2009 -- Red5 Support for VideoWhisper Projects
• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux
• March 1, 2010 -- Red5 Linux Server Optimizations and Tools
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder
• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• September 11, 2009 -- Live Streaming v2 by VideoWhisper
• August 28, 2009 -- Use JW Player to play VideoWhisper application streams

First install Wowza Media Server. Update version if necessary.

cd /root/tmp
wget http://www.wowzamedia.com/downloads/WowzaMediaServer-2-0-0/WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0.rpm.bin
chmod a+x WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0.rpm.bin
./WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0.rpm.bin

Then fill your Wowza Media Server license ( a free developer license for 10 connections can be used for testing):

cd /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/bin
./startup.sh

Change rtmp port in /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0/conf/VHost.xml from 1935 to some other port not in use (i.e. 1936):

<Root>
<VHost>
<HostPortList>
<HostPort>
<ProcessorCount>4</ProcessorCount>
<IpAddress>*</IpAddress>
<!– Separate multiple ports with commas –>
<!– 80: HTTP, RTMPT –>
<!– 554: RTSP –>
<Port>1936</Port>

Run Wowza in background. You can also add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to have it running on each server restart:

cd /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/bin
./startup.sh > start.log &

Now you’ll be able to access wowza rtmp applications with rtmp://your-server:1936/your-wowza-application while red5 applications will be accessible the old way with  rtmp://your-server/your-red5-application .

An example of 2 rtmp servers running on same linux server is the VideoWhisper Webcam Video Recorder.

Red5 Video Recorder
Wowza Video Recorder

• April 29, 2009 -- Installed Red5 0.8 RC3 with JDK 1.6.13 on Linux
• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux
• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• March 1, 2010 -- Red5 Linux Server Optimizations and Tools
• January 5, 2010 -- Install ffmpeg mplayer flvtool2 yamdi x264 theora mp3lame vorbis ogg faac
• February 10, 2010 -- Install GeoIP PHP Extension
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder
• July 28, 2009 -- VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat Script
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• May 16, 2009 -- Red5 Hosting for Video Chat Scripts

This should install ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder, flvtool2, yamdi, x264, theora, mp3lame, vorbis, ogg, faac, faad2, xvid . These tools will enable on your server:

• video conversion
• thumbnail generation
• FLV meta injection (flvtool2, yamdi)
• extra codecs (x264, theora, mp3lame, vorbis, ogg, faac, faad2, xvid)

This is functional and we update it each time we configure a new server.
Installation is done using the “root” account.

Attention: If you copy and paste commands below, make sure “-” are not converted to “.”.  If these get converted, edit “.” back to “-”. Some options use 2 * “-”.

GIT
(required to get X264)

yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel

cd /usr/local/src

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.4.tar.gz

tar -zxvf git-1.6.0.4.tar.gz

cd git-1.6.0.4

make prefix=/usr/local all

make prefix=/usr/local/ install

git –version

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.6.0.4.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/share/man
tar -zxvf /usr/local/src/git-manpages-1.6.0.4.tar.gz

cd /usr/local/src/

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd /usr/local/src/x264
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=/usr
make &&  make install

cd /usr/local/src/

wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2

tar jxvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2

cd /usr/local/src/libtheora-1.1.1

./configure –prefix=/usr

make && make install

cd /usr/local/src/

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.28.tar.gz

tar zxvf faac-1.28.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/src/faac-1.28

./configure –prefix=/usr
make && make install

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
tar zxfv xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure
make && make install

Before installing ffmpeg, setup some linking for scripts that look in certain locations for codecs:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51
ln -s /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.10 /usr/local/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.10
ln -s /usr/lib/libx264.so.80 /usr/local/lib/libx264.so.80
ln -s /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.10 /usr/local/lib/libtheora.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libx264.so.80 /usr/local/lib/libx264.so

FFMPEG (download latest from SVN)

cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure –enable-gpl –enable-shared –enable-nonfree –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libvorbis –enable-libxvid –enable-libx264 –enable-libtheora –enable-libfaac –enable-libfaad
make && make install
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/

FFMPEG configure options use 2 x “-”.

MPLAYER

cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure && make && make install
cd ..

FLVTOOL2
First install Ruby from WHM.

cd /usr/local/src/
wget rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

YAMDI

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/yamdi/yamdi/1.4/yamdi-1.4.tar.gz?use_mirror=ufpr
tar zxf yamdi-1.4.tar.gz
cd yamdi-1.4
gcc yamdi.c -o yamdi -O2 -Wall
mv yamdi /usr/bin/
yamdi -h

INSTALLATION RESULTS

mencoder: /usr/local/bin/mencoder
mplayer: /usr/local/bin/mplayer
yamdi: /usr/bin/yamdi

Add these shortcuts to /usr/bin if you need these there by default:
mencoder to /usr/local/bin/mencoder
mplayer to /usr/local/bin/mplayer

SuPHP fix

With suphp  “env -i” is required when executing php scripts.

exec(“env -i /usr/bin/php ” . $cmd.  ‘>/dev/null &’);

MediaInfo

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/CentOS

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-devel-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/libmediainfo0-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/libmediainfo0-devel-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/mediainfo-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libzen0-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libzen0-devel-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libmediainfo0-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libmediainfo0-devel-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi mediainfo-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm

codec:$ wget \
http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-0.7.0.tar.gz
codec:$ tar zfvx yasm-0.7.0.tar.gz
codec:$ cd yasm-0.7.0
codec:$ ./configure
codec:$ make && make install
codec:$ cd ..

• April 29, 2009 -- Installed Red5 0.8 RC3 with JDK 1.6.13 on Linux
• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux
• March 1, 2010 -- Red5 Linux Server Optimizations and Tools
• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• February 10, 2010 -- Install GeoIP PHP Extension
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder
• September 11, 2009 -- Live Streaming v2 by VideoWhisper
• May 16, 2009 -- Red5 Hosting for Video Chat Scripts
• July 28, 2009 -- VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat Script

The video recorder allows site users to record webcam videos easily from website pages. This can be use on various sites to implement online features like:
+ video sharing, on demand video content
+ video messaging, video email
+ video content on member profiles, video teasers, video questionnaires
+ video comments for online posts and items, video discussions, video forums
Videos are recorded as flv files on the rtmp server and can be played trough the rtmp protocol or by http players as on youtube (if published to a web accessible location).

For more details check the home page of VideoWhisper web based Video Recorder.

• September 11, 2009 -- Live Streaming v2 by VideoWhisper
• July 28, 2009 -- VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat Script
• January 5, 2010 -- Install ffmpeg mplayer flvtool2 yamdi x264 theora mp3lame vorbis ogg faac
• August 26, 2009 -- Online Video Consultation Solution by VideoWhisper
• May 16, 2009 -- Red5 Hosting for Video Chat Scripts
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• October 7, 2009 -- Install Red5 0.9 on Linux Ubuntu
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• May 4, 2010 -- Chatroulette Clone Alternative Script
• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux

For other linux flavors (i.e. Centos) see this comprehensive tutorial Install Red5 and JDK on Centos.

This installation was done from windows so we used  WinSCP and PuTTy (free software)  and was inspired from online tutorials.
This installation was done fluently: if you go to other folders and do other tasks during the installation make sure you return to the right folder before resuming.

First installed required packages one by one:
apt-get install subversion
apt-get install java-package
apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
apt-get install ant

Used arrows to browse to the Ok and confirm on jdk installation dialogs.

Verified installed java version:
java -version

Downloaded latest Red5:
mkdir -p ~/svn/red5
cd ~/svn/red5
svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/trunk red5

Build Red5 with Ant:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/
export ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant/
cd ~/svn/red5/red5
/usr/share/ant/bin/ant

Installed Red5:
mkdir /usr/share/red5
cp -R dist/* /usr/share/red5/
cd /usr/share/red5
chmod 755 red5.sh
chmod 755 red5-shutdown.sh

Started Red5:
./red5.sh > start.log &

Verified opened ports:
netstat -ant

To install a new rtmp application you need to:

1. Copy application to /usr/share/red5/webapps (i.e. /usr/share/red5/webapps/videowhisper as explained on VideoWhisper RTMP Applications)
2. Shutdown red5
   cd /usr/share/red5
   ./red5-shutdown.sh
3. Restart red5
   ./red5.sh

An alternative to doing the red5 installation yourself would be to order red5 installation .

If you don’t have the time and experience to run your own server or vps, you should use managed red5 hosting .

• April 3, 2010 -- Install Red5 on SUSE Linux
• April 29, 2009 -- Installed Red5 0.8 RC3 with JDK 1.6.13 on Linux
• March 1, 2010 -- Red5 Linux Server Optimizations and Tools
• January 13, 2010 -- Run Red5 & Wowza Flash Media Servers on Same Linux Server
• July 9, 2009 -- Installing VideoWhisper Video Conference on your Windows Computer
• January 5, 2010 -- Install ffmpeg mplayer flvtool2 yamdi x264 theora mp3lame vorbis ogg faac
• July 28, 2009 -- VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat Script
• August 26, 2009 -- Online Video Consultation Solution by VideoWhisper
• May 16, 2009 -- Red5 Hosting for Video Chat Scripts
• October 31, 2009 -- VideoWhisper Video Recorder